That was a really exciting episode, it's nice to see how all the units in play hold more or less the same weight, giving use even to the Workers, the ship tactics were pretty fun, and I love how wired weapons continue to be a major player, absolutely loved the fight between the Barbatos and Hyakuri.


Hahah, guess she was fated to be a love or hate character, personally I'm glad her and to a lesser degree Amida finally bring characters that are enthusiastic about MS battles to the regular cast, it's a nice contrast to Mika's sheer killer instinct.

I'm always fond of characters that are all about having fun, the biscuit line was great and her MS is pretty sweet, so she's cool in my books.

Eeyup, the way they scavenge parts is essentially a more universal version of the Striker packs, it's quite neato.
Though I never realized they took the Schwalbe Graze shield.

Quick question for anyone who bought HG Gundam The End:

Are the fingers on his larger hands slice-able? From the looks of it, they're connected together but have their own individual ball joints when installed onto the palms. Was wondering if some quick slicing in between each assembly will allow them to move more freely, splay out and such without compromising stability.

I doubt she'll be anywhere near as bad as Nena Trinity. Hated that bitch.

It definitely seems to be the case:

http://i.imgur.com/0AS3ieV.jpg?1

I love Nena Trinity for how terrible of a human being she is and how not shy she is about having a crush on Setsuna.

Currently abroad in Shanghai, havent been ablevto find mich Gunpla yet due to being on a borirng ass bus tore the this week but i did stumble on this statue while we were out and sbout today

from manga vol 5 art book, these atlas gundam is Ball wearing gundam armour. :D

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...522/BY7Im8.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...522/3lrFbI.jpg

They had a pretty dope build burning outside too

So I was reading Gundam the Origin 9 a few days ago.Something fun that finally made sense to me in 0079 Gundam that didn't really have anything explain it was Tem Ray. From the 0079 movies I got the impression that Tem Ray was just a crazy old man off his rocker that I didn't see much of up until that point. But then the Origin explains the backstory on the Gundam and Tem Ray leading the project and it cast a whole different light on him. I got to the part where he meets Amuro by chance and gives him the circuit thing and Amuro said he had this Oxygen condition I had never heard of before. Looking it up, it was a mental condition from lack of oxygen that messed up your mental state in a lot of ways. Which totally makes sense since he got blasted off in the destruction of Side 7 and was probably floating out there a really long time.

TLDR: Tem Ray wasn't just some crazy old guy, he was a brillaint man who built the Gundam that suffered mentally from a lack of Oxygen due to being in space too long.

So Gundam Thunderbolt release details just dropped. It's not a TV series like some uninformed people thought it was. But its not an OVA either. Then what the hell is it? I'm glad you asked!

Its a 4 episode series, each being 18min long, that you can only get through Bandai digital services. There's gonna be a few showings at the Gunpla expo and a 4K trailer released and the 1st episode releases at Christmas.

I'm kinda disappointed with this honestly. Why only 4 18 minute episodes, why not go all in? And people are pissed that the dude who wrote Valvrave is writing this.

RD Barbatos is one of the things my money is going towards, saw the initial images and just, need.

Just got the next two kits today. Have to say it's a nice change from the Graze. Started with the Hyakuri: got the upper body done and it's nice but man that thruster unit is BIG... so glade they included one of those cheap stands in nice clear plastic. One real cool thing about the Hyakuri is that color separation is really well done. More to come STAY TUNED!!!

Same here. I didn’t expect him to come around so early, but I don't mind, I’ll definitely get one in April.

Also getting the Mikazuki character stand in December now, should work just fine with the Robot Damashii, it's all Bandai anyways and the RD's should be the same size as the model kits.

Yeah, the character stand should work fine with the RD. Although I think the character stand is just a base, so you'll need an extra armature for it.

The product description says it "will come with stand arm on which to mount your kits" and on this pic an armature is shown with the base:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m-82A3YVgW...ntitled-12.png

So I guess that'll work with the RD.

That's cool, I didn't see that.

So I did some digging and I found out that the 1st episode of Thunderbolt will be covering the first 4-5 chapters of the manga. Thanks to mechatalk finding this one one of the japanese websites.

http://gundam-tb.net/index.html

How long are episodes suppose to be then?

They're 18 minutes still. But I've been reading some Thunderbolt online myself and the chapters are kinda short, some of them are just short scenes, others are entire battles or parts of them. People deduced from the trailers that based on what was in them how far in they went.

Episode 8 of Iron Blooded Orphans was fantastic like usual. I'm a little weirded/ creeped out by the all female crew ship being all the wives of that one dude. So there's probably gonna be no shipping. Hell, in the show itself, the sexual tension/angst has already started.I am a fan of that one girl though with the light blue hair and the orange suit, she hasn't piloted an MS yet but she's gorgeous.

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/...20151118062201

It was also cool to see Orga mature a little bit learning what true leadership is and showing to be a little vunerable. It was also cute to see Atra and Kudelia get more in touch with their feminine sides interacting with those babies. We've come a long way from the days of 0079 MSG where Tomino was stupid enough to put shitty kids old enough to go around and cause trouble but young enough to not contribute to combat/the story.

Yeah that was beyond cringe worthy, goddammit Japan.

Rest of the episode was cool though, nothing major happening but still interesting.

Yeah, remember when those kids DIDN'T save the GMs, didn't hijack a military vehicle and didn't transport active bombs away from from the base? What useless kids they were.

Didn't stop the, from being any less annoying...I cheered when they were finally off the ship

I thought the kids were fine. They didn't do anything all that annoying (I mean, worst thing I can remember is they brought a vacuum onto the bridge).

Like, you can probably find child characters actually more annoying than those kids. Hell, I felt brain damage raraiya was the most annoying.

...The more I hear about this show the gladder I am I haven't watched it.

Give it a chance I've been enjoying it quite a bit and it's getting better with every week

What are you talking about? The Harem Ship is the first thing I don't like about the show, everything else is great.

They were doing so well up to this point, there was maybe like 1 butt shot the whole show like 2 episodes ago (that I'm not sure was completley intentional.) Then this happens lol.

IBO is not bad. It is quite good actually, a good story, lots of good characters and fantastic fights. We all freak out about thos, but this could mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. For all we know, the dude married to all these women could die in 5 episodes and leave them all open. Could lead to some interesting subplots about how women are used/damaged in war or the fallout from the person they love dying or something.

Well the protagonist is a cold blooded killer,the setting is in my opinion unnecessarily bleak to begin with*for a Gundam show atleast* and now the show's first female pilots are all glorified concubines.

No, he's a victim and a product of Mars' society. And he isn’t a whiny teenage boy.

I like it. Much better than start throwing names around I don’t understand or having 5 episodes where nothing happens.

Wrong. I hate that this is a Harem, but the females aren't objectified. They're still great pilots and they are not treated like sex slaves. The one girl continues to kick Mika’s butt in mech fights.

He's all of those things.

He's still gunning down unarmed defenseless hostages in cold blood every other episode because his boss tells him to.

Good for you I don't.

And? It still doesn't change the fact that right after the episode they're introduced they're all revealed to be the wives of their boss.

He did this once. He shot people who abused him and the other kids for years, after Orga gave all of them the chance to go. They chose their own fate.

The other time he killed someone was after both agreed in a duel to the death and his opponent begged Mika to kill him.

Of course he’s cold about it, but there’s a reason for that. And that makes him an interesting character as opposed to the whiny ,stupid teenage boys I’ve seen in every other Gundam so far.

Your loss.

No, it doesn’t. But it also doesn’t stop them from being awesome.

And it’s still the first major flaw in the show so far, everything else comes down to personal preference.

Because no matter if you like Mika or not, his behavior is an important part of the show and fully intentional.

Normally I'd say that them all being his wives sunk any "ships" fans could make, but knowing the internet, a little thing like being married won't stop shippers from paring off Tekkadan boys with less prominent wives.

Also, didn't think Mika would be worried about being ditched. Nothing about Orga suggested he'd even consider that, but hey, people come up with weird ideas.

I think this was also the first time we saw Orga this vulnerable or unsure of himself also. Interesting episode.

I think it makes him a boring,flat and one dimensional character much like Heero Yuy as opposed to more interesting and complex characters like Amuro,Kamile,Shinn*before his character derailment* and even Setsuna*before the movie anyway*

My gain I would think.

It makes them feel less like characters in their own right however.

I would personally consider a boring protagonist a major flaw myself but that's me.

It also makes IBO*in it's current state anyway* unwatchable to me as unlike Wing IBO has no other main characters who act as foils to Mika's coldness and ruthlessness.

PS:

I'm not insulting anyone for liking IBO I get why people like it.

It's the "mature and serious" Gundam show that people have been asking for since AGE ended.

I get it, it just isn't a show for me.

Blu-Ray.com did their review on the first Gundam 1979 blu-ray set. They give the video quality a low score. I still want to get it though.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Mobile...138601/#Review

I read almost all of the chapters from Gundam Thunderbolt that were unofficially translated into English, just to see what it was about and give you guys a heads up on what to expect from the Thunderbolt anime. Mind, you I was sort of reading faster then I normally do, but here's my impressions.


I like Thunderbolt. From the first fight it has an interesting setup and creates an interesting parallel between the two sides. Just from that both Io and Darryl listen to jazz, to that they both have love interests on their ships that knew them since childhood, and have scarred pasts. This also continues with how each side loses, with a sort of equivalent loss for each side in the big end battle of the 1st Arc. While some people may be annoyed there's not a definitive winner as of currently, I think some may like it.

I tend to be more interested in Io as his story actually kinda expands the lore of U.C. a bit with the story about Side 4 and the Mua Brotherhood and kind of their reputation and why they get the Full Armor Gundam in the first place. While from how far the English translation has gone isn't too much, it does at least gives some characters to a previously unexplored area in the Earth Sphere. Darryl and his constituents kinda just go "Oh look! We're doing secret military experiments for Zeon!" Yeah, get back in line Living Dead Division, right after the Flanagan Institute from 0079 and whatever the hell Aina's brother was working on in 8th MS team.

The MSes in Thunderbolt are sort of interesting too. They all have backpacks that would make Cosmic Era Mobile suits ashamed of themselves. They all have these sort of robot arms that help them grab/hold other stuff such as beam sabers, extra shields, guns, e.t.c. Like imagine the little shitty arms from a Ball and that's what they look like. The Full Armor Gundam itself is just a massively armed monster for no reason other then show. This fucking thing gives Full Armor Unicorn a run for its money in terms of ridiculous fire power. I hope in the anime they give a good reason why everyone is so heavily armored in this area whereas everyone else in the One Year War is going bare.

Now there is something you all should know about Thunderbolt is that it sort of goes past the One Year Year in terms of its story. I mean, you see Aboa Qu fall and you read that the agreement was reached, but the manga says that half of the Zeon forces haven't given up yet. So it may or may not be in alternate continuity? All depends on if the anime gets to that point and what they decide to do with it. I wouldn't put it past them as the opening for Zeta says any major war hasn't happened since 0079 but 0083 still had shit go down. But I hope they use sort of Thunderbolt section as sort of a self contained story, at the very least.

I must have incredibly low standards when it comes to blu-ray picture quality because I generally don't understand why these releases are getting such low scores when it comes to picture. It looks exactly how I'd expect an attempt to remaster a 36 year old animation with budget issues to.

Oh well.

They probably expected dynamic shading or some shit added in.

It's an HD version of a late 70's cartoon!? there's only so much you can do.